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East River Source Control teases new version control system built for AI coding agents

East River Source Control, a startup operating quietly for over a year, published a post outlining why it believes existing tools like Git are struggling under the pressures of AI-driven, agentic software development. The company says it plans to announce its product soon but is first laying out its reasoning about where version control needs to evolve.

Developer migrates personal projects from Git to Fossil over Rust rewrite plans

A developer describes abandoning Git for personal projects after learning of a proposal within the Git project to make Rust mandatory. Citing long experience with systems like RCS, CVS, SVN, Mercurial and Bazaar, they chose Fossil as a replacement, noting its C codebase, small footprint, and simpler workflow without a staging area.